Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Noted Film
Director Mahesh Bhatt described MAGICAL voice of renowned Ghazal Singer Jagjit
Singh as " Simplicity, simplicity & simplicity" Magic is
Simplicity or Simplicity is MAGIC. How true but difficult to achieve.

We are here in
this world contributing daily our bit of complexity to the world in whatever we
do. We love complexity. Simple is no brainer is what we believe.

When Reliance
wants to raise funds they come out with TOCD. Triple Optionally Convertible
Debentures. No investors would know how safe it was, when and at what
price how many shares he will get. That's big brainer. Opposite of simplicity.

Retailers now a
days offer discounts like buy 1 get 5 free. Why do they keep price of one so
high to cover cost and margin of 6 ?? To sell quantity & fool customers.

We have our tax
laws most complex which requires highly qualified professionals to unravel the
clauses and implications { we even can have multiple views and opinions
}. Big brainer by our bureaucrats and source of income for professionals.
Additional gift of so much complexity is litigation.

How we calculate
our poverty and GDP is again a big mystery. Complicated enough so no one can
understand and hence questions.

I recently got
customer charter from one or the private banks. Good that they have this but
its spread over many many pages, small fonts which make it unreadable.
Look at our legal agreements, exim procedures, forex procedures, internally our
company policies, customer policies, promotion policies, all are voluminous
work of senior professionals and lawyers. Unless it’s complicated and complex
its not worth it. Smartness is in complications.

Many companies
come out with various attractive schemes for the customers but while availing
such schemes we came across small asterisk and that leads us to complex terms
and conditions. Everything around us is complex.

On many of the
websites they put up whole lot of information but contact or mailing details we
could be find with great difficulty. Reaching them which is the most important
thing misses the attention of the designer.

I come across
many business plans , IMs /project reports, 70% of the pages are useless
collection of data. We can't KISS it ( keep in simple and short ). We
just cant. Simple job is not worth and should not be paid much. { our notion
which promotes complexity }

However as
rightly recoginsed by Mahesh Bhatt, its the simplicity that clicks ,works and
noticed. Life is otherwise very complicated so those who can make it simple by
their action and work will be cherished and valued. Simplicity is @ premium.
If u can simplify, u are indispensable & most sought after.